SSHS Plant Sale
The Sulphur Springs Horticulture and FFA departments will be holding their annual plant sale this Saturday, April 9th. All plants sold were grown by floral design students. Current floral design students and FFA members will run the plant sale. Plants being sold include Boston ferns, geraniums, begonias, lantanas, verbenas, pentas, vincas, impaitens, petunias, and celebrity tomato plants. Only cash and checks will be accepted. Contact...
2016 RFL “Paint the Town Purple” is May 13
Amber Henry, Event Lead for Hopkins County Relay for Life, is inviting everyone to get involved now in this year’s “Superheroes” event. It will be held from 7pm Friday May 13 til 7am Saturday May 14 on the downtown Celebration Plaza in Sulphur Springs. Also on the schedule is the Survivors Dinner on April 23 at 6pm at League Street Church of Christ for cancer survivors, their family members and caregivers. There is...
SSHS Plant Sale
The Sulphur Springs High School Horticulture Department will be holding the annual Plant Sale on Saturday April 9 at the Greenhouse, which is located behind the high school. Plants will be arranged on the lawn in front of the greenhouse for easy selection. There will be blooming plants and green plants in the sale. Varieties will include geraniums, lantanas, pentas, vincas, begonias, verbenas, celosia, petunias, impatiens and Boston...
SSHS UIL Takes 2nd Place At District Meet
Sulphur Springs High School competed in the District 15-5A UIL Academic competition on Friday, April 1st and Saturday, April 2nd. Results are as follows: In Lincoln-Douglass Debate, Corban Philo placed fourth In Ready Writing, Patricia Parks placed first and Lydia Burleson placed third. In Computer Science, Trenton Brock placed first, Sean Allemang placed second, Tim Charlton placed third, and Mauro Basio placed fifth. The team...
Tony Holmes
Funeral services for Tony Holmes age 57 of Sulphur Springs will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home with Rev. Doug Holt officiating. Interment will follow at Conner Cemetery with Todd Holmes, Mike Tucker, Steve Eppars, Jay Eppars, Rick Harrison, Robert Romans and Wynton Lewis serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearer is Tony Giles. Visitation will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., Tuesday,...
Winnsboro Police Department Report for March 29-April 3
Two arrests, an accident, 141 calls for service, 58 citations and 23 warnings written occupied the time of the Winnsboro Police Department March 28 – April 3. Kerry Bell, 40, of Winnsboro was arrested Wednesday, March 30th for driving while license invalid with a previous conviction. On Friday, April 1st, Thomas Lawrence, 47, of Winnsboro was arrested for a DWI. One minor accident involved a white GMC truck towing a boat in the 200...
Fourth Annual Tanner Higgins Warrior Run is Saturday
The 4th Annual Tanner Higgins Warrior Run is Saturday, April 9th at Cooper Lake State Park. The event was created to honor the memory of Sergeant Tanner Stone Higgins killed by enemy forces during a heavy firefight during combat operations in Logar Province, Afghanistan April 14, 2012. Sgt. Higgins, team leader assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, was leading an assault against an enemy compound when he was...
Another Week to Wait
Although Hopkins County Memorial Hospital Board set a called meeting for noon Monday, April 4, hoping to finalize the proposed partnership with CHRISTUS , they will meet again next Monday, April 11 with the same hope. In an executive meeting early last week, the local board addressed 11 questions to CHRISTUS. During a meeting last Thursday, nine of those 11 questions were answered but two remain (see story here). CHRISTUS had not...
Signs of Spring !
Here are a few signs that Spring has finally come to Hopkins County, Texas!
